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Health service personnel managers and unions have questioned whether tough NHS performance targets set by the Government can be put into practice.Newly elected president of health service HR managers body …
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Motor giant Ford has won a reprieve from an investigation by a government equality watchdog into race discrimination at its Dagenham plant.The Commission for Racial Equality has agreed to Ford’s …
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HR professionals took part in a mock employment tribunal at a seminar last week in which speakers Thomas Kibling and Professor Alan Neal acted out the role of witnesses in …
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New employees at Internet company Cisco put themselves on the payroll and then order their own mobile phones, business cards and company credit cards in a form of self-service HR.Once …
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Family-friendly working is the most overused phrase of the year. At every HR event, speakers and delegates have been eager to drop words like flexible working into the conversation at …
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Employers have three months to push for clear rules on monitoring staff e-mails and telephone calls following the publication of a draft code of practice last week.The architect of the …
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Employers are supporting a local authority’s decision to demand that smokers make up the time they spend on cigarette breaks.The introduction this month of London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ policy …
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Employers were reassured this week that plans to give employees “pensions forecasts” will not overwhelm them with paperwork.The Government is introducing a voluntary scheme next year in which staff will …
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A union recognition deal at Eurotunnel signed in June replaced a cavalier management attitude towards involving staff in decision-making, HR director Mark O’Connell told delegates.“What is absolutely clear is that …
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Employers must seek out innovative ways of keeping information channels open between staff and management to increase competitiveness and reduce injuries and deaths at work.Health and Safety Commission chairman Bill …
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Company rhetoric about valuing staff amounts to little unless management practises what it preaches.
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In a recent Management Today survey on flexible working, the overriding message was that most people see it as a benefit only for colleagues with children, and feel resentful. Flexible …
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Employers need to work more closely with government agencies to eradicate unemployment hotspots in the UK.
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BA pilots must not take anything that affects their ability to operate…
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Call centre managers have blamed HR departments for staffing problems in their fast-growing industry.Open Lines, a report by recruitment consultancy TMP Worldwide, found recruitment remains the biggest problem facing call …